Last week I wrote about how even pro-lifers discriminate against the unborn when saying that women should not be punished for having abortions if and when abortion should become illegal. Silent No More, the nation's leading post-abortion group, has just given a press release giving the usual pro-life thoughts on the subject. That is, that women shouldn't be punished.
This drives me insane. Firstly, I realize that this issue is hypothetical and inapplicable to our nation's current legal situation. Right now you can get a late-term abortion, for Pete's sake. But to me this is about so much more: the discrimination of the unborn by all sides of the issue.
One of Silent No More's arguments is that women have been lied to by abortionists, being told that their unborn baby is a "blob of tissue". They conclude: "We should not and will not jail women who have been lied to for decades." While I obviously agree that there is misinformation given to women about their pregnancies when they are seeking an abortion, why does it matter? Women still know that they are ending their pregnancy. Pregnancy, to them, equals baby. How do I know this? Because of Silent No More! If women really believed that their babies were blobs of tissues, why would they get upset? The women and men in Silent No More are not always joining up after seeing a picture of an unborn baby and thinking, "Hey', that's not a blob of tissue!"--they join because of the guilt that they have. The realization that, in the heat of the moment and fear and pressure, they killed their baby.
Is there any other crime in which someone hires another person to do the actual crime that we do not punish both parties? No, there isn't.
If and when abortion is made illegal, believe me, there isn't going to be the "blob of tissue" line. The amount of education and work that is going to have to go into overturning Roe and then criminalizing it throughout the nation is going to wake the public up to what abortion really is.
An ending thought: the woman, even if told by her abortionist that the baby is a blob of tissue, is the person ultimately making the choice in most cases. She's the one who, knowing abortion is illegal, will seek out the abortion. She will have to ask herself "Why is abortion illegal and why do I want one?" At that point it shouldn't be hard to find the answer and the current stage of her baby's fetal development. We don't criminalize removing tissue from a person! She will then make the choice to seek out an abortionist, give consent for an abortion and undergo the procedure. Even though the abortionist does the killing, the woman leads up to it knowing full-well that abortion is illegal. Obviously any cases of women being pressured from other people such as family or a boyfriend will be considered in a court of law. I would also hope that in a post-Roe world we would have resources for such women to escape those situations.
Again: when we, like the pro-choicers, make abortion the exception for common sense and, more importantly, justice, we discriminate against the unborn and sentence them to death.
You are absolutely correct!!
Moral schizophrenia and relativism reign.